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Re: THEORY: more questions

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 20:46
--- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
wrote:

> > It's > > totally transparent to me. As with any verb > > of that sort (sing, tell, read, etr.) > > Ah, but there's the rub: it's not a verb of > that sort to me.
Really? It's not a verb of communication that takes dative of person and accusative of thing?
> The verb 'write' takes a direct object alright, > but one which refers to what's written.
Yeah. And? Oh - I see. For you, a DO is requíred. Only "sing me" doesn't make sense in Merkin; the bare dative is regularly used with all those verbs when a DO is present "sing me a song" = "sing a song to me", which sounds weird. :S
> ObConlang: ... nah... wait till I'm ready :)
Gr! I'm sure that in Kerno any of those verbs can postpend a bare dative pronoun, cantami, ycrivemi, etc. You generally switch to a preverb and infixed pronoun with DO, though: domcanta yan gancièn, domecrive yan garta. Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .

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Roger Mills <romilly@...>
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